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ODETS MSS.

The Odets mss., 1921-1963, consist of the papers of
playwright Clifford Odets, 1906-1963. Odets began his career
as an actor in local New York theater groups and traveling
stock companies. As one of the founding members of the Group
Theatre in 1930 he continued acting, but found new release for
his creativity in writing plays. It was during this time that
he wrote
Awake and Sing! and
Waiting for Lefty,
two plays which marked him as one the most important
playwrights of the period. During the production of his play
Paradise Lost in 1935, Odets moved to Hollywood where he
began writing screenplays, as well as directing and producing
such films as
The Big Knife,
The Country Girl,
The Story on Page One,
Sweet Smell of Success,
and
Wild in the Country. In 1961 he signed with the
television series
The Richard Boone Show as
editor-in-chief.

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